"Close watchers of Comedy Central's fake news shows are familiar with
this method. The only way to deal successfully with a Stephen Colbert
interview, for instance, is to out-Colbert Stephen Colbert, giving up
any hint of earnestness and losing yourself in a cloud of irony and
sarcasm. The same can be said with Fox, where the currency is not
irony, but a sense of victimhood, combined with an aww-shucks,
I-have-nothing-to-hide, red-blooded American innocence. Massa did Beck
better than Beck, and he left Beck dumbfounded."